So I’ve just joined the site and played around with it for a bit. It seems good, I really like that lingQ can be used to track the words that I do or do not know. However, despite that, I’m not sure if I will use it or not with my language learning.
Right now, I’m learning Spanish and my level is Intermediate II or Advanced. One of my current strategies for improving my Spanish is to read various blogs in Spanish about topics that interest me. This makes it easy for me to keep reading while I learn new vocabulary. What I would love to do is to be able to read the same blogs through lingQ and then have the ability to mark words that I do or don’t know. A lot of the lessons and articles out there don’t really interest me. If I’m going to spend time reading Spanish, I’d rather read about things that I would naturally read about in English. So, I think adding an RSS feed reader functionality to lingq that integrates with lingq’s natural word-marking ability would be absolutely awesome. I imagine a lot of advanced learners would feel the same way.
The second feature I would like to request is a firefox extension that would let a user add words to their lingq list from any site across the internet. I often surf Spanish sites that aren’t blogs. These sites will often have vocabulary that I do not know. I would like to be able to quickly and easily add them to my lingq word list. I think a firefox extension could achieve this functionality, although I do understand that it would take quite some time to complete.